JSS Private School
Very Good Al Quoz, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- KHDA rating
- Very Good
High quality across the board with minor areas to improve — often better value than Outstanding. Ratings are from the last full inspection cycle (2023–24).
- Annual fees
- AED 14,000 to 25,000 a year
Varies by year group; confirm current fees with the school. 2026–27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- Established
- Not recorded
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Quoz, Dubai
District-level pin for Al Quoz — use the Google Maps link for the exact gate.
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In context
Its mid-range fee is about 30 per cent above the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 15,000). It is one of 46 schools in this guide currently rated Very Good. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March — plan relocation timing around this.
Worth comparing: Bright Riders School (AED 10,000 to 20,000 a year) — a lower-fee option in the same area; Delhi Private School (AED 10,000 to 17,000 a year) — a lower-fee school with the same Very Good rating and curriculum.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Paraphrased from the last full DSIB inspection (2023–24 cycle) and its published record — read the complete report on the official KHDA directory.
Strengths the inspectors named:
- A third consecutive Very Good in 2023–24 — with several standards rising to Outstanding this cycle.
- English attainment Outstanding in every phase except KG — where science is Outstanding instead, as it is in Secondary.
- Students’ outstanding attitudes, behaviour and relationships named by inspectors as the school’s defining strength.
- Wellbeing Very Good, with the governing board and leaders showing a very strong commitment stressed through policy and practice.
What they asked the school to improve:
- No measure sits below Good — and the ones at Good are, as so often, Arabic and Islamic Education.
Inclusion (students of determination): Very Good — 155 students of determination in a school of about 2,100, with a well-resourced SEN and inclusion provision and a formal gifted and talented identification programme running alongside. Five guidance counsellors serve the whole roll, a ratio worth noting when judging pastoral depth. Health and safety and child protection practices are described as very good across all phases, and the inclusion framework emphasises a warm, friendly and secure environment. Context worth carrying: this school has held Very Good across three consecutive inspection cycles after Good ratings between 2014 and 2019, and its reading literacy benchmark rose 49 points to 582 in 2023, a progression KHDA rated Outstanding. Note also that its sister school, JSS International, is a different school with a different curriculum — CICSE rather than CBSE. See the special educational needs guide for the questions to ask on a visit.
Inspector summaries are being added school by school as each report is read — 169 of 169 so far, dated per cycle, never invented. A school without a summary yet is unread, not unjudged.
Visit kit
Questions worth asking on a tour — tuned to this school’s rating and curriculum:
- Who leads inclusion here — and may we meet them before enrolling?
- How much staff turnover did you have last year, and why?
- What are actual class sizes this term — not the maximum?
- How and how often will I hear about my child’s progress?
- How long is the real waiting list for my child’s year group, and how does sibling priority work?
- How do you handle children joining outside the April intake?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
Other schools in Al Quoz
- GEMS Our Own English High School — Very Good, AED 9,000 to 16,000 a year
- GEMS Our Own Indian School — Very Good, AED 7,000 to 14,000 a year
- The English College Dubai — Very Good, AED 41,000 to 68,265 a year
- Safa British School — Very Good, AED 45,428 to 73,550 a year
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